 | Bernard Shaw - English drama (Comedy) - 1903 - 240 pages
...it. TANNER. Why, man, what other work has she in life but to get a husband? It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. You have your poems and your tragedies to work at : Ann has nothing. OCTAVIUS. I cannot write without... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - English drama - 1913 - 300 pages
...you should have a husband. ANN. I daresay I shall, someday. TANNER. But why me — me of all men ? Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation ot' my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of... | |
 | Frank Wadleigh Chandler - Drama - 1914 - 524 pages
...is you who are the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey. ... It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can." In truth, however, Tanner, and not Octavius, is the object of Ann's affections. She does not scruple... | |
 | Book collecting - 1905 - 930 pages
...lay bare the nature and incidents of that attraction. John Tanner naturally disapproves of marriage : "Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary...surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat." This and more to the same effect he declaims to Ann Whitefield, the heroine, who realises in a flash... | |
 | George Jean Nathan - Theater - 1970 - 404 pages
...poker and a pair of hobnailed boots; not always even then," of old thought very nifty, and others like "Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, etc.," earlier considered the height of iconoclasm, have acquired the ring of penny cynicism on the... | |
 | Croft M. Pentz - Humor - 1990 - 386 pages
...honeymoon is the vacation a man takes before going to work for a new boss. It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. A career girl is one who would rather bring home the bacon than fry it. The marriage knot should be... | |
 | Carolyn Logan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 410 pages
...woman is his game"; "He should marry her and make an honest woman of her"; "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can"; "Each man for himself"; "Women should be struck regularly, like gongs." The phrases and sayings in... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? 3842 Man and Superman It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. 3843 Man and Superman There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...is virtue but the Trade Unlonism of the married? 1 06 1 7 Man and Superman It is a woman's business istory; only biography. 3326 Essays The faith that stands on authority is not faith. 10618 Man and Superman There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other... | |
 | Delbert D. Thiessen - Social Science - 170 pages
...the meaning of all mysterious hints. Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. George Bernard Shaw British playwright Sex drive: A physical craving that begins in adolescence and... | |
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. 
